![]() ![]() Of course there is no option I can find to turn off that annoying modal pop-up dialog. I just want it to shut the fuck up and play a video. No I don't, and I also don't want it to ask me that every fucking time. It crashes all the time, and then when I restart it, it ALWAYS asks if I want to report the last crash to the development team. Why can't the playlist window just stay the same size? ![]() Then there's the way it decides to resize the playlist window really big for no reason at all. At least it should give me an error message instead of just silently losing. Maybe my preferences file keeps getting corrupted, but that should NOT happen, ever. There is no "OK" button, and if there was both an OK and a Save button, that would still be a terrible user interface design.īasic simple things like that just don't work. OK applies them without saving, while Save applies and saves them." "As for saving, make sure you click 'Save' on the options dialog. And sometimes it can even output corrupted file." I have to hand edit the configuration text file. Once you have setup all your keys, save, and completely exit and restart VLC."įor me, on both Mac and Windows, VLC key bindings fail to take effect until I restart it (any key bindings, not just global media hotkeys), and many options simply don't get saved at all. Click "Apply" and it should show you the media key identification of the key you pressed. Press the media key on the keyboard, and it'll return but will act like nothing changed. "In VLC, as of 1.1.11, you have to go to interface, preferences, hotkeys, and doubleclick the GLOBAL hotkey you need to set. Some but not all of the changes I make to the configuration (like key bindings in particular) don't take effect until I restart VLC. And free media player developers don't want to pay to license codecs when they gain no benefit over just supporting whatever codec libraries the OS has installed. And I know people want to be paid for their art which others have demand for. I don't like licensed codecs, but I understand that encoding groups will use the codecs which work best illegally if necessary since encoding tv & movies for free downloading are all still legal and moral grey-areas. I don't know where my responses would lead a media player developer. Whereas VLC "just works", well at least the older versions. ![]() I don't want this to become a fanboy flamewar, but the above process is time consuming, technically difficult & also requires a broad and complex network of social trusts. Playing a video usually means having to learn about codec packs like ffdshow from Google searches and random internet forums, and then finding the legitimate website for the codec pack (not a linkspam site or a rehosting company like cnet who bundle Ask toolbar into the installer), then locating and downloading the codec pack on the (sometimes intentionally) badly designed website, and giving it blanket permission to alter files on your hdd. Mplayer and mplayer2 use the Windows codec libraries. I would have downloaded it and tried it out, but I don't know how to make this on Windows. I like that responsiveness is one of the bullet points. When I go from a quiet video to a loud video, and I roll the mousewheel to lower the volume, that volume change needs to happen immediately, not after a 1-2 second delay. The delay is a second or 2, which is a second or 2 longer than it used to be, and a second or 2 longer than it needs to be. I don't know what changed, but it has made VLC 2.0 too annoying to use. I actually downgraded from VLC 2.0 to 1.1.10 because of VLC's terrible responsiveness. I'm already trusting the media player install package to not be evil, and I'd rather only have to trust 1 install package instead of it and several codec install packages.Ģ. Actually, it tells me I'll have to go find these random codec packs again, opening myself to possible CSRF attacks and other malware from poorly-secured or malicious codec providers. Reading this github doesn't tell me why I should use mpv instead of vlc 1.1.5. All the codecs are included with the program. mkv files much better than the 2-year old player or the newest player.Īnd unlike mplayer, mplayer2, wmp, and most other players out there, you don't have to goto some random website and download some random codec pack, and install it with who knows what malware. That's right, the 3-year old player plays the newest. mkv files which didn't play correctly, so I downgraded from 1.1.10 to 1.1.5, and they play just fine. VLC has terrible license problems and awful feature creep. Or when I do, it's because they're using a newer version of VLC which has removed support or changed processing. Other people tell me "It doesn't play some of my videos" but I haven't seen this actually occur. I've actually stuck with VLC 1.1.5 for 2 reasons:ġ. I have been a VLC user on Windows for years. ![]()
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